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Something I’ve been wondering about lately:

When you use ChatGPT or Claude, do you actually write detailed prompts, or have you mostly moved toward just talking to it like a person?

I feel like there are two very different ways of using these tools.

One is: "Here's the context, here's exactly what I want, here's the format…"

The other is basically opening voice mode and saying, "Okay, I need help with this thing…"

I do both, but I’m curious which one people naturally prefer.

Also, for the prompts you do write, are they things you create from scratch each time, or do you have a few that you keep around and reuse?

Interested in hearing what people actually do, rather than what they're "supposed" to do.

Random question for people who use AI a lot.

If you have a prompt that works really well for something, what do you do with it?

Do you:

save it somewhere
keep it in a notes app
put it in a document
leave it in an old ChatGPT/Claude conversation
just remember roughly what you wrote
or never reuse prompts in the first place?

And do you even think of these as "prompts"? I feel like that word makes it sound more complicated than it often is.

Also curious whether people are starting to replace some of this with voice. For example, instead of keeping a carefully written prompt for a recurring task, you just explain what you want out loud each time.

What kinds of things do you find yourself asking AI to do over and over?

When I first started using ChatGPT, I never really thought about saving prompts.

I'd write something, get what I needed, close the tab, and move on.

Then after a while I noticed I was writing basically the same instructions over and over again.

Summarize this.

Rewrite this so it sounds better.

Help me brainstorm.

Explain this in a way that's easier to understand.

So I started keeping the ones I liked.

At first it was just a few in Notes. Then a few more ended up in old conversations, documents, and random places I probably won't remember six months from now.

And every now and then I'd find myself trying to track down a prompt I knew I'd used before.

That's when I started thinking about this differently.

If thousands (or millions) of people are using ChatGPT every day, we're probably all coming up with variations of the same useful prompts.

We share recipes.

We share templates.

We share spreadsheets.

We share workflows.

Why don't we share prompts the same way?

Right now, a good prompt might live in a Reddit comment, a screenshot, someone's Notes app, or an old conversation. Someone finds it, improves it, uses it for a while, and then it pretty much disappears.

I've started building a small experiment around this idea, but before I take it any further, I want to figure out whether this is actually a problem other people have too.

So I'm genuinely curious:

1. Do you save prompts that work well for you?
2. Where do you keep them?
3. Do you ever share them with other people?

And if you don't save them, is it because you don't really find yourself reusing prompts, or because you haven't found a good way to keep track of them?

Small agency, 6 clients, everything gets designed in Canva and scheduled about a week out.

Tuesday a client asks us to change a date on an event graphic. Designer fixed it in Canva within the hour. Thursday the post goes out with the old date on it anyway, because what actually got pushed to the scheduler was the export from the Friday before.

Nobody caught it, there was nothing to catch it with. Once it's exported, it's just a PNG sitting in a queue, it has no idea the design behind it moved on.

We've now got a rule where the designer flags any change after approval in Slack. Failed twice already. People forget, or they're off that day.

What I'm actually trying to work out is whether our lead time is the problem. How far ahead are you queueing stuff, same week or further? And in the last month or so, how many times did a design get edited after the post was already sitting in the queue. Not could it happen, did it.

When it did happen, did it go out or did someone spot it first, and what spotted it. That's the bit I care about because we had literally nothing.

And if this just doesn't come up for you, I'd like to know what your setup is. Locked designs after signoff, exporting fresh the morning of, one person who checks the queue, whatever it is?

Small agency, 6 clients, everything gets designed in Canva and scheduled about a week out.

Tuesday a client asks us to change a date on an event graphic. Designer fixed it in Canva within the hour. Thursday the post goes out with the old date on it anyway, because what actually got pushed to the scheduler was the export from the Friday before.

Nobody caught it, there was nothing to catch it with. Once it's exported, it's just a PNG sitting in a queue, it has no idea the design behind it moved on.

We've now got a rule where the designer flags any change after approval in Slack. Failed twice already. People forget, or they're off that day.

What I'm actually trying to work out is whether our lead time is the problem. How far ahead are you queueing stuff, same week or further? And in the last month or so, how many times did a design get edited after the post was already sitting in the queue. Not could it happen, did it.

When it did happen, did it go out or did someone spot it first, and what spotted it. That's the bit I care about because we had literally nothing.

And if this just doesn't come up for you, I'd like to know what your setup is. Locked designs after signoff, exporting fresh the morning of, one person who checks the queue, whatever it is?

Small agency, 6 clients, everything gets designed in Canva and scheduled about a week out.

Tuesday a client asks us to change a date on an event graphic. Designer fixed it in Canva within the hour. Thursday the post goes out with the old date on it anyway, because what actually got pushed to the scheduler was the export from the Friday before.

Nobody caught it, there was nothing to catch it with. Once it's exported, it's just a PNG sitting in a queue, it has no idea the design behind it moved on.

We've now got a rule where the designer flags any change after approval in Slack. Failed twice already. People forget, or they're off that day.

What I'm actually trying to work out is whether our lead time is the problem. How far ahead are you queueing stuff, same week or further? And in the last month or so, how many times did a design get edited after the post was already sitting in the queue. Not could it happen, did it.

When it did happen, did it go out or did someone spot it first, and what spotted it. That's the bit I care about because we had literally nothing.

And if this just doesn't come up for you, I'd like to know what your setup is. Locked designs after signoff, exporting fresh the morning of, one person who checks the queue, whatever it is?

Small agency, 6 clients, everything gets designed in Canva and scheduled about a week out.

Tuesday a client asks us to change a date on an event graphic. Designer fixed it in Canva within the hour. Thursday the post goes out with the old date on it anyway, because what actually got pushed to the scheduler was the export from the Friday before.

Nobody caught it, there was nothing to catch it with. Once it's exported, it's just a PNG sitting in a queue, it has no idea the design behind it moved on.

We've now got a rule where the designer flags any change after approval in Slack. Failed twice already. People forget, or they're off that day.

What I'm actually trying to work out is whether our lead time is the problem. How far ahead are you queueing stuff, same week or further? And in the last month or so, how many times did a design get edited after the post was already sitting in the queue. Not could it happen, did it.

When it did happen, did it go out or did someone spot it first, and what spotted it. That's the bit I care about because we had literally nothing.

And if this just doesn't come up for you, I'd like to know what your setup is. Locked designs after signoff, exporting fresh the morning of, one person who checks the queue, whatever it is?

Small agency, 6 clients, everything gets designed in Canva and scheduled about a week out.

Tuesday a client asks us to change a date on an event graphic. Designer fixed it in Canva within the hour. Thursday the post goes out with the old date on it anyway, because what actually got pushed to the scheduler was the export from the Friday before.

Nobody caught it, there was nothing to catch it with. Once it's exported, it's just a PNG sitting in a queue, it has no idea the design behind it moved on.

We've now got a rule where the designer flags any change after approval in Slack. Failed twice already. People forget, or they're off that day.

What I'm actually trying to work out is whether our lead time is the problem. How far ahead are you queueing stuff, same week or further? And in the last month or so, how many times did a design get edited after the post was already sitting in the queue. Not could it happen, did it.

When it did happen, did it go out or did someone spot it first, and what spotted it. That's the bit I care about because we had literally nothing.

And if this just doesn't come up for you, I'd like to know what your setup is. Locked designs after signoff, exporting fresh the morning of, one person who checks the queue, whatever it is?